God Save the People! From the Stamp Act to Bunker Hill

Environmental History Seminar“Many Bulldozers are Drooling”: The Urban Origins of Rail Trails13 November 2012.Tuesday, 5:15PM - 7:30PMSeminars are free and open to the public; RSVP required.Subscribe to receive advance copies of the seminar papers.Silas Chamberlin, Lehigh UniversityComment: Julia O’Brien, Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation

This history of rail trails highlights the increasingly fractious relationship among urban constituencies and sheds light on the meaning of recreational trails as spaces of potential conflict between groups of walkers, landowners, policymakers, and residents.